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Jim Slotek

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Neil Young: Coastal (2025) 79% B-plus “Young jokes through his first public performances in four years. But there’s an uncertainty underneath. He'll be 80 soon, and isn’t exactly ageless - until those slightly swollen fingers and hairy knuckles find their home on a keyboard or guitar neck. ” – Original Cin Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% A-minus “Many espionage-themed action films hit the ground running. The smartly scripted espionage-themed inaction film Black Bag somehow manages to do likewise.” – Original Cin Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% B-minus “As a turn-your-brain-off, techno action movie, it succeeds well enough. As a Marvel movie that connects with other Marvel movies in any meaningful way or charts a new direction, it’s little more than a space-filler.” – Original Cin Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Young Werther (2024) 71% C “It is possible Young Werther would have found its place in the ‘80s zeitgeist. Whether it appeals to you today may depend on whether or not you’ve subsequently decided Ferris Bueller was kind of an a--hole.” – Original Cin Jan 6, 2025 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% C “Santa Claus militarized as Tom Clancy would have imagined him, Red One is a non-stop action movie with just enough plot to stitch together more action scenes, as soullessly fast and furious as you’d expect from writer Chris Morgan of Fast & Furious fame.” – Original Cin Nov 13, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% A-minus “The terrifically acted, engrossing mystery thriller raises the bar for cinematic intrigue at the Vatican. It captures both the grandiosity of the surroundings, and the cheek-to-jowl claustrophobia of powerful clerics vetting the direction of the Church.” – Original Cin Oct 20, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% B-plus “Folie à Deux is many things, a deranged romance that indulges itself as a movie musical, a court procedural, a violent prison drama, and a director realizing a vision. It is definitely not the origin story of a genius super-villain and his girlfriend.” – Original Cin Oct 3, 2024 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 78% B-plus “This fast-moving, claustrophobic film – set in or near the famous Studio 8H – is a convincing depiction of a revolving door of characters, most either furious or on the verge of panic. More anxious than humourous, it is comedy at the edge-of-your-seat.” – Original Cin Oct 1, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% B-plus “Park uses the past-future interaction to frame a deeply affecting story of first-love that resists all outside efforts to derail it (including frantic texts and phonecalls from 21 years later). It's a fresh take on an irresistible premise.” – Original Cin Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% C-plus “I will hunt down and haunt anyone who compares Beetlejuice Beetlejuice favourably to the original, so loudly does it scream “Sequel!” But yes, there are some laughs, despite the missing elements of surprise and delight. ” – Original Cin Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Borderlands (2024) 10% D “An hour-plus of noise and lame wisecracks without tension or sense of purpose, Borderlands would be Exhibit Z in the argument that video games don’t transfer well cinematically... if recent efforts like The Last of Us or Fallout hadn’t proved otherwise.” – Original Cin Aug 8, 2024 Full Review The Death Tour (2024) 88% B-plus “Part of me wishes Peterson and Ballantine had archival material to work with, considering the stories you can read by googling the Death Tour. But the doc works well in the present with today's ragtag group of wrestlers finding fulfillment. ” – Original Cin Aug 3, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% C-minus “M. Night Shyamalan’s silliest movie since The Happening. I feel as if the premise came first – birthday present, maybe? – and the director used every sort of pretzel logic and coincidence to make a square script fit into a round hole.” – Original Cin Aug 2, 2024 Full Review Touch (2024) 93% B “Sweet, charming and at times melancholy, Touch is a low-key drama that moves at its own Icelandic pace, the better to savour its tragic, but ultimately hopeful story.” – Original Cin Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 86% A-minus “As a procedural, Longlegs doesn’t always stand up. But it’s the little things that make it a great horror film. The mood is powerful, and while jump-scares may be cliché today, when you see it done with flair and timing, you realize what a skill it is. ” – Original Cin Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% B-minus “Kinds of Kindness is like a promo for three uncooked movie ideas. They are various levels of "weird" and “interesting.” But their connection is so tenuous that they come off more like separate episodes of a Black Mirror-ish anthology series than a film.” – Original Cin Jun 24, 2024 Full Review Plastic People (2024) B-plus “There is an almost hopeless, too-late feel to the scope of the ocean of plastic bits we inhale and absorb (let alone what’s absorbed by our fellow creatures). At its end, Plastic People tries to strike an optimistic note, but cheering up is a tall order.” – Original Cin May 28, 2024 Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% B-minus “Apes gonna ape. And for what it’s worth, the somewhat talky Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - the fourth in the most recent series inspired by Pierre Boule’s 1963 novel – is the most ape-ful of the series. It doesn't move the saga along much though.” – Original Cin May 8, 2024 Full Review The Animal Kingdom (2023) 83% B-minus “There are interesting ideas at play in The Animal Kingdom, all of them explored only superficially, with echoes of X-Men and Doctor Moreau-lite. It's a film that desperately wants to be a metaphor for something.” – Original Cin Mar 12, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% B “While Joel did Shakespeare, Ethan created something closer to a Coen brothers' movie. Qualley and Viswanathan are a likeable odd-couple, in a dumb movie rendered smartly enough to be flimsy fun. ” – Original Cin Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Fitting In (2023) 96% B “Fitting In sounds like a movie that might puts its message ahead of the narrative. For the most part, the opposite is true. The characters all act believably, and Ziegler is endearing, playing Lindy from frustration to sardonicism to scattershot anger.” – Original Cin Jan 31, 2024 Full Review The Iron Claw (2023) 89% A-minus “Fine performances all around, but Efron taps the deepest well. The Iron Claw may be the best awards season film to go unnoticed (some ensemble mentions from critics awards notwithstanding). But who knows? Wrestling is known for last-minute turns of tide.” – Original Cin Dec 19, 2023 Full Review Dream Scenario (2023) 91% A “It’s hard to imagine a world where Cage is a nobody. He plays that role well, but his evolution into a soured, angry cornered animal brings out the dark we love to watch. He doesn’t want to be in people’s dreams doing what he does. Or he says he doesn’t. ” – Original Cin Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Marvels (2023) 62% B-minus “The shortest MCU film it may be, but The Marvels has so much on its plate versus time on its clock, that it is a movie in a hurry. This despite its occasional rest stops of silliness (which are the movie's saving grace). ” – Original Cin Nov 9, 2023 Full Review Who's Yer Father? (2023) B-minus “After watching the all-in dumb Maritime crime comedy Who’s Yer Father?, you’ll have absorbed the equivalent of a glossary of Prince Edward Island-isms. It's a pretty broad comedy for such a small island, but it has some charm and a silly laugh or three.” – Original Cin Nov 7, 2023 Full Review
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